1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 18, 2:48 PM EST, 1 hour 22 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 348 PM EDT SAT AUG 18 2001 SFC FNT ACTUALLY MOVED EAST TODAY BRINGING DRIER WLY FLOW INTO MUCH OF THE CWFA FOR THE AFTERNOON. WAVE FORMED ALONG THE FNT HELPING TO INITIATE CONVECTION JUST TO OUR EAST. FLOW SHOULD TURN BACK TO THE SW AND MOISTURE INCREASE TONIGHT IN RESPONSE TO SHORT WAVE MOVING INTO AREA. HAVE LEFT SMALL POP ACROSS CWFA TO COVER ONGOING CONVECTION AND POSSIBLE CONVECTION TONIGHT. ANOTHER WAVE MOVES INTO THE AREA LATE SUNDAY WITH GOOD MOISTURE. ETA DEPICTS RISING THETA-E WITH BULLSEYE OVER CWFA 00Z MONDAY. SPC HAS US IN SLIGHT RISK FOR DAY 2 WITH SQUALL LINE MOVING IN FROM WEST. TIMING TRICKY AGAIN SO USED 50 POP SUN/SUN NITE. SIGNIFICANT DRYING AND WLY FLOW MOVES IN MONDAY. HAVE DROPPED POP TO SILENT 20. LOWS TONIGHT TRICKY WITH LOW DEW POINTS. GONE JUST BELOW RECENT NUMBERS. HIGHS SUNDAY SIMILAR TO TODAY. THEN COOLER MONDAY WITH LOWER THICKNESSES. MDLS SHOW SOME MOISTURE AT DIFFERING TIMES IN THE EXTENDED...BUT ANY FORCING WEAK. POPS BELOW CLIMO SO WILL KEEP DRY. SHOULD SEE INCREASED CLOUDS AS WEEK PROGRESSES. TEMPS COOLER EARLY THEN RETURNING TO CLIMO STILL LOOKS GOOD. GSP 69 89 68 87 / 30 50 50 20 AND 69 89 68 87 / 30 50 50 20 CLT 69 89 68 87 / 30 50 50 20 HKY 67 86 66 85 / 20 50 50 20 AVL 65 85 62 82 / 30 50 50 20 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. RWH
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 160 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:08 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A few trees and power lines brought down southeast of town, along NC Highway 24/27 and on Reed Mine Road.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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